Star Trek in your ear

Remember the original Star Trek in which communications officer Uhura had a cool earpiece resembling a small pine cone that contained both microphone and speaker? That was 1966 but, finally, 41 years later fiction has become fact.

The Motorola H9 Bluetooth headset, promised and delayed for nearly 12 months, could be mistaken for an oversized earplug but miraculously stuffs in all the required gadgetry for handsfree calls. Read the full Motorola H9 review in today's paper.

In games, Elite Beat Agents (DS) slots into that rare but beautiful category of music rhythm. In typical histrionic style, it mixes comic-book melodrama with touchscreen timekeeping as you attempt to save the world by tapping the DS stylus.

Megaman ZX (DS) remains true to the series' old-school roots, a 2D platformer with rock-hard difficulty, which could have been more enjoyable with a usable map system.